- From: John Whelan <whelan@itp.unibe.ch>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
I can't find anything in the HTML 4.0 Recommendation
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/> says that it's illegal to construct
a table which has a multi-row cell which spans more than one TBODY,
like so:
<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">foo</td>
<td>bar</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>baz</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I think this violates the spirit of the TBODY element (one could make
a slightly weaker case against multi-column cells which span more than
one COLGROUP), and if one of the subdivisions involved is a TFOOT, the
results could be disastrous. Is this sort of thing supposed to be a
no-no? The table validates according to the HTML 4.0 DTD, but then so
does a table with overlapping cells, which is explicitly stated in
section 11.2.6 to be an error.
John T. Whelan
whelan@iname.com
http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
Received on Tuesday, 29 September 1998 14:16:15 UTC